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[from our owx correspondent.] Wijr/UAfTON, May 2G. The Volunteer Commission held hy the correspondent of the Otayo Daily Times lias been cancelled, in consequence of the charges made by him against the Premier, and the countercharges of purloining despatches. No enquiry was held previous to the cancellation. Two clerks in the Defence Office have been suspended, pending inquiries respecting the intelligence afforded to the correspondent of the Times.
RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. This DaV. (Before A.C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) Civil Case?. Hamilton v. Gorm.—Was a claim brought by a late seaman on board the Crest of the Wave, against the late master of that vessel for LlO for wages. The defence was that the plaintiff had been guilty of several acts of misconduct, for which he had been superseded, and that there was nothing due to him ; there was also a set off for stores lost .and wasted by the plaintiff while serving as cook. The charges were denied by the plaintiff, who asserted that he had been more sinned against than sinning. Judgment for the plaintiff, LG 7s Gd, including a penalty of L2 for wages not being paid when applied for, in accordance with the Act.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2201, 27 May 1870, Page 2
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200BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2201, 27 May 1870, Page 2
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